Question

Im a newbie in ubuntu. Im getting an error while installing phpmyadmin in ubuntu11.4 server. It says

An error occurred while installing the database:
ERROR 1045 (28000):Access denaid for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password:YES);

I am sure that I used the correct password for root. I can login to mysql through putty.
Do I need to do anything with privileges?

Please help me to sort this issue.

Answer 1

I suggest:

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

and you typed something else. 🙁

pidof mysqld says what exactly? If nothing then sudo service mysql start and try

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

again.

Re-configure mysql-server:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server

or

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.1

whichever one is installed.

Once you reconfigure (and recover) your root mysql password, then
Reconfigure phpmyadmin

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin